Bender Bending Rodríguez — the booze-guzzling, kleptomaniac robot from Matt Groening's Futurama.
Bender Bending Rodríguez is one of the main characters of the American animated sitcom Futurama, created by Matt Groening. A Bending Unit 22 robot built in Tijuana, Mexico, he works alongside Fry and Leela at the Planet Express delivery company and is characterised as cynical, alcoholic, and prone to petty theft.
Bender is brash, loud and totally shameless — give your Bender Mii a deep, booming voice on LTD's sliders so his "Bite my shiny metal ass!" lands across your island.
Combines sharp intelligence with unshakeable confidence and independence. A lone wolf who plays by their own rules.In Tomodachi Life, set this Mii's sliders so Speech + Movement totals 8–11 and Thinking + Energy totals 0–3. See the full Rogue guide →
Why this fitsBender is loud, openly self-interested, and breaks every rule for fun — from stealing cigars to backstabbing his crewmates mid-episode. That theatrically rule-breaking profile fits Rogue (high Speech + Movement, low Thinking + Energy).
To make a Bender Mii in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, open Mii Maker and pick a cool grey skin tone, a flat-top boxy hairdo to mimic his cylindrical head, narrow eyes, and a smug half-smile — Mii Maker can't render full robot geometry, so colour and silhouette stand in. The picker-by-picker walkthrough below works for both Nintendo Switch (LTD) and 3DS (original Tomodachi Life).
Use the system Mii Maker, then bring the Mii into Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.
Diagrams show where the option sits in the Mii Maker picker (4 columns, scroll to reach later rows). Editor menus differ slightly between regions and console revisions — if an exact option is missing, pick the closest one.
Bender's full appearance as a Mii Studio data string. Drop it into Mii rendering tools or community Mii editors that accept Studio codes (it's not a console import — for the game itself use the steps above).
08004c030b040703000a060807050b000b000005000a001203010801001e5604000214031308220a04000a020009
This is a 3DS-format Mii QR code generated from Bender's Mii data. On a Nintendo 3DS, open Mii Maker → QR Code / Image Options → Scan QR Code and point the camera at it, then bring the Mii into the original Tomodachi Life. The Switch / Switch 2 has no camera, so it can't scan Mii QR codes — for Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream use the step-by-step instructions above (or the online Mii creator).
Download QR codeHis full robot body
Mii Maker only builds humanoid flesh-and-blood faces, so the cylindrical metal head, antenna, segmented arms and cabinet-door chest can't be rendered — a grey tone plus a boxy flat-top silhouette stands in.
His metallic finish
Mii Maker has no chrome or metal skin, so pick the coolest grey tone available and let the boxy hair and smug expression carry the likeness.
Build cheat-sheet
Feature → the move to make in Mii Maker
Set the coolest grey skin tone and a metallic grey favourite colour — the grey is what reads as "robot."
Pick a flat-top, boxy hairstyle to suggest his cylindrical metal head and the little antenna on top.
Give him narrow eyes and a smug, half-smiling mouth — Bender is always pleased with himself and up to something.
Keep an average-to-stocky build and lean on the grey palette; the silhouette does the robot work the editor can't.
His full name is Bender Bending Rodríguez — a Bending Unit 22 robot manufactured in Tijuana, Mexico, originally built to bend girders.
His catchphrase, "Bite my shiny metal ass," is one of the most quoted lines in the whole of Futurama.
In a running gag, Bender runs on alcohol — he actually needs to drink to function, so his heavy boozing doubles as refuelling.
He works alongside Fry and Leela at the Planet Express delivery company and is written as cynical, greedy and prone to petty theft.
Fry
His human best friend and partner-in-mischief — the wide-eyed delivery boy Bender drinks, schemes and roams the future with.
Leela
The one-eyed Planet Express captain who keeps Bender and Fry (barely) in line on their delivery missions.
Recreate Fry and Leela as their own Miis and house them near your Bender Mii to rebuild the Planet Express crew — but Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream won't recreate Futurama for you. Friendships grow from proximity and shared time, and romance runs on dating preferences and zodiac compatibility, so who Bender pals around with on your island is down to how you play.
A Rogue-type Bender is the island's gleeful troublemaker — loud, openly self-interested and breaking every rule just for the fun of it. Rogues bring the chaos, so the comedy is in dropping him among your most upstanding residents and watching what goes missing. He rooms most easily with other big personalities, which is what LTD's roommate harmony rewards. Romance isn't something he can scam into place, though: crushes in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream run on dating preferences, random chance and birthday/zodiac compatibility — never personality — so set your Bender a birthday and let the island decide.
Use a cool grey skin tone, a boxy flat-top hairstyle, narrow eyes and a smug half-smile, and set a metallic grey favourite colour. Mii Maker can't build his metal robot body, so the grey palette and boxy silhouette stand in — follow the picker-by-picker steps above for Switch (LTD) or 3DS.
Only by suggestion. Mii Maker builds humanoid flesh-and-blood faces with no metal finish, antenna or cabinet body, so the closest read is a cool grey skin tone with a boxy flat-top head shape and a smug expression.
Fry and Leela, his Planet Express crewmates — build them as their own Miis and house them nearby. LTD won't recreate Futurama, since relationships form from time spent together, but having the crew on one island sets it up.
Rogue fits best — set high Speech + Movement with low-to-mid Thinking + Energy in the panel above. It matches his loud, self-interested, break-every-rule-for-fun streak.
Sources: WikipediaCharacter facts are grounded in the source(s) above; Mii-Maker mapping is our own craft guidance.
Paste a Mii Studio code or upload a Mii QR image into the QR code Mii decoder to get this same step-by-step recreation guide for it.
Build a Mii from scratch in the online Mii creator, then bring its code here for rebuild steps.
